INTERVIEW
The Turkish offensive in Kurdistan, in northern Syria, is said to have killed more than 300 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the hypothesis of a ceasefire, despite calls from Westerners, including the United States and France, to put an end to this major military operation.
"What will happen, if we French and Europeans do not react, is that in a year or two, when networks will be raised by jihadists, we will again mass attacks in France", wanted to alert Wednesday morning, at the microphone of Julien Pearce on Europe 1, the writer and adventurer Patrice Francheschi.
This reserve officer, author of Dying for Kobane, has been fighting for seven years alongside the Kurds. "By abandoning our friends and allies, we commit both a moral fault - because they did the job for us against the common enemy of the Islamic State [...] - and a fault "believes Patrice Francheschi. "By abandoning the anti-jihadist shield we had installed with the Kurds, in northeastern Syria on a surface as big as four times Lebanon, we are going back seven years, with the resettlement of jihadists who will be recycled under another name than Daesh, but who will be the same. "
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We prefer to postpone the necessary measures that we should take now for our security
For this adventurer, questions of internal security in Europe, and especially in France, are therefore closely linked to the fate of the Kurds. "Why do you think there has been no mass attack in France for three years, simply because the Kurds, with our help, have liquidated the practical and tactical organizations of the jihadists."
"Our problem is the lack of will", criticizes the one who won the 2015 Goncourt prize of the new. "We do not know how to make war, we do not know very well if we want to do it, we do not know how to take blows in the war, and we prefer to postpone the necessary measures that the we should take now for our safety. "
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The courage of the Kurds
Patrice Francheschi also praised the tenacity of his Kurdish friends, alone against the Ankara forces, as the United States announced the withdrawal of 1,000 of their soldiers hitherto stationed in northern Syria. "The Kurds are resisting and the apocalyptic defeat we are being presented is not yet fully played," he says.
"The north-east of Syria is an immense plain, a plain is easy to take and difficult to defend.The Turks have a large air force, heavy armored vehicles, very powerful artillery. they crushed the Kurds under fire, "says Patrice Francheschi. "That said, my comrades had been preparing for a long time, and all summer they dug tunnels, embankments, all that was needed to prepare the defense, and the Kurds expected this offensive and resisted fiercely. "